Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 June 1900 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

A cyclone is reported to have swept through portion/ oUArkansas and Mississippi. ** Minnesota Odd Fellows have voted to exclude druggists and hotelkeepers' from the order. A St. Louis deputy is accused of murder by a coroner's jury as a result of Sunday's riot, Chicago’s dog license bureau has broken all records, having issued tags for 27,235 canines. Fire burned business buildings in Bloomington, 111., and caused a loss of SJ,(XM),OOO or more. English labor delegates have come to the United States to found Ruskin labor college at St. Louis. Chicago Naval Reserves will get from SSO to SIOO prize money for their part in the battle of Santiago. The prosecuting attorney of Grand Rapids, Mich., has begun action against a combination of ice dealers. A California court decided that the marriage of nelsons within a year after divorce in that State is invalid. Six thousand Indians on the Gila reservation, Arizona, are said to be starving to death because of failure of crops. Mrs. Jessie Benton Fremont, aged widow of Gen. Fremont, fell and fractured her hip joint at Los Angeles. Rose Hudson and Merle Bressler, 14-year-old girls, were drowned while bathing in the Platte river at Bellewood, Neb. The population of Chicago is less than if couuted in January, as labor troubles caused many workingmen to leave the city. John E. Sullivan, ex-clerk of Marion County, Ind., has surrendered himself on charge of embezzling $60,000 eleven years ago. In the Federal Court in San Francisco, Cal., Judge Morrow dissolved the general quarantine declared against Chinatown. George G. Gardner, n Chicago boy killed in battle against the Filipinos, had insured his life for $2,500 in favor of bis sweetheart. Dr. Lung, with an armed guard, resisted the attempt of his successor to take charge of the Nebraska Institution for Feeble-Minded. Charles Miller, 14 years old, pf Raymond, 111., has been swallowed up in Chicago and his name is on the police register ns •’missing." Passengers in a Burlington train in Nebraska were badly frightened during n fierce iftrm. Hailstones as large as baseballs broke the car windows. Andrew Hogan, a prominent citizen of Steubenville, Ohio, was struck by a locomotive nnd instantly killed while walking on the track inside the city limits. On Friday the St. Louis street car employes offered to resume work under conditions existing previous to the strike; (150 men were reinstated. The main gate of the Chengivatona dam over Snake river, a mile above Pine City, Minn., was blown out by dynamite. It !» supposed to be the work of up-river farmers, whose land had been overflowed. Teachers with physical ailments are likely to be barred from the Chicago schools in future. Only those of robust physique will be employed. The arrest of Charts P. Parker, a Chicago ex-banker mid clubman, st Lake Minnetonka, Minn., results in diiiclosnrcs that he Is accused of frauds aggregating $75,000. The New York Ice trust cases Were removed Friday from Court of Special Sessions, mid will go to New* York grand jury, which will uot reach them before October. IT re destroyed the DqpgU* school. Thirty-second street and Forest avenoe.

Chicago, entailing a loss of $85,000 and leaving 1,000 pupils without an institution of learning. - allowance of $113,400* for the Chicago postoffice, which will cause 365 promotions nnd the erection of forty-five new sub-postal stations. Comptroller Bird S. Coler of New York City, who has recently been visiting in Champaign, 111., purchased the cottage in which be was born thirty-five years ago, paying SI,BOO for it. Tj«ing around his neck a rope; to which was attached a heavy stone, W. H. Brockway plunged from a bridge over the Cache La I’otidre river, near Greeley, Colo., and was drowned. Judge Fiske of North Dakota lias handed down a tax decision holding the new State grain elevator law valid. Under this law all grain found in elevators April 1 is taxed regardless of ownership. The new Auditorium built at Des Moines by popular subscription last summer at a cost of $45,000 was almost entirely destroyed by fire. The cause is unknown, but is supposed to be defective electric wiring. Joseph Koetzle, n Sioux Falls, S. D., saloonkeeper, was held by the coroner’s jury for the death us William Dowdell, a retired farmer, whom he struck in a tight a few days ago. Koetzle was platted under SI,OOO bond for his appearance in court. JThe California special bearing 400 delegates to the Republican convention at Philadelphia crashed Into a freight train on the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railway at Thirty-ninth street, Chicago, and a panic among the passengers followed. Estimates made for a Chicago paper indicate that, the census will show a population of 78,964,742, an increase of 26 per cent; value of manufactured products, $12,698,403,060, a gain of 36 per cent; and farm lands, $17,865,200,831, a gain of 35 per cent. James JC Jones,~cKSlrfffffH“ot the Democratic national committee, arrived at Kansas City Thursday to preside over the sub-committee meeting. The principal theme discussed was the charge that exorbitant rates are being asked by the hotel proprietors. In a collision of a Bowling Green and a Maumee Valley electric car Ross Quickie was fatally hurt and several others seriously injured. The cars were running at the rate of thirty miles an hour when they came together on a curve between Perrysburg and Toledo, Ohio. By an explosion of dynamite at the Hale mine, three miles from Biwabik, Minn., five men were instantly killed. After the fuse had been lighted the usual alarm was given to the laborers, but five of them ran into the drift where the charge had been planted, meeting their death. The big Union grain elevator in Kansas City was destroyed by fire, causing a damage of over SIOO,OOO. The building was valued at $70,000, and it contained $30,000 worth of wheat, all of which was destroyed. J. K. Davidson, principal owner of the property, states that the loss is covered by insurance. —ln Cincinnati Herman Haermeyer came home drunk, knocked his wife and daughter clown - iwid was beating them when his 18-year-old sou jumped from bed to help them. The father was getting the better of his son when the boy ran for his pistol and shot his father twice. The father died and the son was held for murder. • A syndicate* of Minneapolis, Minn., capitalists has bought the Mississippi Valley Telephone Company from J. L. Hubinger. who has iu the last three years invested $609,000 in the fight there and in St. Paul against the Northwestern Telephone Exchange Company. As much more will now be put in ami the fight continued.